Manned/Unmanned Common Architecture Program (MCAP) net centric flight tests

Dale Johnson

doi:10.1117/12.817873

13 April 2009 Manned/Unmanned Common Architecture Program (MCAP) net centric flight tests

Dale Johnson

Proceedings Volume 7345, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2009; 734507 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.817873
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2009, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Properly architected avionics systems can reduce the costs of periodic functional improvements, maintenance, and obsolescence. With this in mind, the U.S. Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate (AATD) initiated the Manned/Unmanned Common Architecture Program (MCAP) in 2003 to develop an affordable, high-performance embedded mission processing architecture for potential application to multiple aviation platforms. MCAP analyzed Army helicopter and unmanned air vehicle (UAV) missions, identified supporting subsystems, surveyed advanced hardware and software technologies, and defined computational infrastructure technical requirements. The project selected a set of modular open systems standards and market-driven commercial-off-theshelf (COTS) electronics and software, and, developed experimental mission processors, network architectures, and software infrastructures supporting the integration of new capabilities, interoperability, and life cycle cost reductions. MCAP integrated the new mission processing architecture into an AH-64D Apache Longbow and participated in Future Combat Systems (FCS) network-centric operations field experiments in 2006 and 2007 at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), New Mexico and at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) in 2008. The MCAP Apache also participated in PM C4ISR On-the-Move (OTM) Capstone Experiments 2007 (E07) and 2008 (E08) at Ft. Dix, NJ and conducted Mesa, Arizona local area flight tests in December 2005, February 2006, and June 2008.

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Dale Johnson "Manned/Unmanned Common Architecture Program (MCAP) net centric flight tests", Proc. SPIE 7345, Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications 2009, 734507 (13 April 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.817873

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